canning

1. gerundobsoleteparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of can (“to be able to”)

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of can (“to seal in a can”)

plural cannings

1. countableuncountableThe process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).

   Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]

   1969, Herbert John Miller, Non-ferrous Metals Industry, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 25

2. countableuncountableThe practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.

   “In canning, you go where you want and do what you want,” Gadsden says. “You’re your own boss.”

   2016 April 8, Malia Wollan, quoting Eugene Gadsen, “How to make money collecting bottles and cans”, in New York Times

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   Canners know when they hear the clink of a bottle going into a garbage bin.[…] CORNISH: Now, there's also this sense of loss in hearing people in the movie describe what they had been doing before canning became a way of life for them.

   2013 February 20, Audie Cornish, quoting Matthew O'Neill, “In ‘Redemption,’ Collecting Cans To Survive”, in NPR News

   But the income that many Californians rely on from canning is imperiled by a crisis for recycling centers.

   2016 August 6, Julia Carrie Wong, “Collecting cans to survive”, in The Guardian

1. A surname.
2. A river in Alaska.
3. An unincorporated community in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States.
4. A civil parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
5. A village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.First known use 1830

   Synonyms: Apple Tree Landing, Habitant Corner

6. A town in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
7. A river in Western Australia, named after George Canning.
8. A local government area in Perth, Western Australia; in full, the City of Canning.
9. A town in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India.